BSA in the News

Football aces' bet addiction ruins play
The Sun (Main), 07/04/2016, p.15, Chloe Mayer
players on the coach or by betting online, which allows them to keep it secret from partners. But it is rife at some clubs and fuels bad team spirit, a British Sociological Association conference heard in Birmingham. Former pro Graeme Law, 31, interviewed 34 current and former players as part of his PhD at Chester University. They admitted allowing their....

Gambling fears 'hit performances'
The Daily Telegraph (Sport), 07/04/2016, p.7, Ben Rumsby
Footballers are underperforming on the pitch because of worries arising from losing at poker on the team coach or at hotels before matches, the British Sociological Association's annual conference in Birmingham will hear today. As part of his PhD, Graeme Law, of the University of Chester, interviewed 34 current and former professional players, who....

Jack Wills: aspiration, ambivalence and class on campus
Times Higher Education Supplement (Web), 06/04/2016, Unattributed
public school-educated undergraduate. Dr Smith’s research, which is the subject of his book Elites, Race and Nationhood: The Branded Gentry , was presented at the annual conference of the British Sociological Association on 6 April. Growth in the popularity of the Jack Wills brand during the 2000s coincided with the entry into selective universities of large numbers of....

Muslim women much less likely to be employed than non-Muslim women with same qualifications, research suggests
The Independent (Web), 07/04/2016, Unattributed
in Qatar and Dr Shereen Hussein of King’s College London and involved data analysis of more than a quarter of a million women’s lives. It was presented yesterday at the British Sociological Association's annual conference. Dr Khattab said: "Economic activity among Muslim women in the UK remains considerably lower and their unemployment rate remains significantly higher than the majority....

Children of single parents `marginalised? in higher education
Times Higher Education Supplement (Web), 07/04/2016, Unattributed
less likely to enter higher education and to gain a degree, few quantitative studies of this kind have been carried out in the UK. At the conference of the British Sociological Association on 7 April, Dr Gagnon was due to present the results of interviews with 26 daughters of single mothers, which suggest that similar challenges may exist in....

27 February 2016
New study exposes 'class ceiling' that deters less privileged actors (The Observer)

8 February 2016
Why City firms struggle to challenge elitism (The Conversation)

16 September 2015
Degree holders more interested in arts (The Australian)
Here's why artists, musicians, actors tend to be middle class (webindia123)
Degree holders 'more likely to participate in the arts' (BT News)

15 September 2015
Are the arts only for the middle classes? Having a degree is the main factor behind why people paint, act and play instruments, researcher say (Daily Mail)

10 September 2015
High-earning men would take a pay cut to spend more time with partners, says study (The Globe and Mail)
Men Would Take Pay Cut to Spend More Time With Partners (The New Indian Express)
Most high-earning men want to earn less and work less, academic study finds (The Telegraph)

16 April 2015
Facebook can worsen or enhance your mental health (Delhi Daily News)

15 April 2015
Study turns spotlight on Glasgow street gangs (BBC News)
Victorian juvenile criminals less likely to re-offend compared to modern counterparts, study shows (The Independent)
From Artful Dodger to honest worker: how apprenticeships kept juvenile re-offending rates down in Victorian times (The Telegraph)
British Muslim women 71% more likely to be unemployed due to workplace discrimination (The Independent)
12-year-olds turning violent in Glasgow’s gangs (The Scotsman)
Yorkshire study lays bare harrowing accounts of disabled victims of sexual and physical abuse (Yorkshire Post)

1 April 2015
Welfare States ‘Encourage’ People to Want to Work, Study Reveals (Newsweek)

1 April 2015
Generous welfare benefits make people MORE likely to work, study claims (Daily Mail)

1 April 2015
8 av 10 nordmenn sier de ville gått på jobb selv om de ikke trengte pengene (dagbladet Nyheter)

31 March 2015
Generous welfare systems actually make people more keen to work, Europe-wide study finds (The Independent)

25 March 2015
Why the bleak service station is best for business people (The Independent)

A summary of some of the coverage in the news media of the BSA Annual Conference 2014, 23-25 April:

Children living with a step-parent or a lone parent are as happy as those living with two biological parents

Migrating to the Mediterranean in search of a better lifestyle makes people unhappier than if they stayed at home

Girls and young women can achieve influence and high status in criminal street gangs because of their people skills

Each year several hundred articles are written in UK and other media about research presented at BSA conferences and in BSA journals. Here are a few of these from the last few years:

Huffington Post	Women 'Suffer Greater Stress And Inequality Than Men At Work' Global Study Finds	http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/03/04/women-work-inequality_n_4895552.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
South Africa Daily Mail	High-earning mom means happy home	http://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/family/parenting/high-earning-mom-means-happy-home-1.1649630#.UwTXfW0_hh4
Daily Mail UK	High-earning mom means happy home	http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2561739/High-earning-mum-means-happy-home-Couples-mother-earns-20-father-significantly-chance-splitting-up.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Time Magazine	High-earning mom means happy home	http://healthland.time.com/2014/02/18/study-being-a-breadwinning-mom-wont-split-your-family-up/
The Times	Britons feel better about immigration when Eastern Europeans settle here	http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/business/economics/article3729418.ece
Phys.org	Poor more generous than rich in recession, study shows	http://phys.org/news/2013-04-poor-rich-recession.html
Daily Mirror	Dog bite victims treated in hospitals rise by 551%	http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/dog-bite-victims-treated-hospitals-1812339
Cosmopolitan	Childless men are depressed	http://www.cosmopolitan.com/celebrity/news/childless-men-depressed
New York Daily News	Childless men are depressed	http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/health/men-depressed-women-kids-survey-article-1.1306967
The Guardian	New classes emerge in society	http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2013/apr/03/great-british-class-survey-seven
The Independent	Scale of abuse of women revealed	http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/scale-of-abuse-against-women-revealed-7637592.html
The Independent	Black people in UK more likely to be unemployed than those in US	http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/black-people-in-britain-more-likely-to-be-unemployed-than-those-in-us-7640694.html
The Guardian	Black people in UK more likely to be unemployed than those in US	http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/13/black-people-unemployed-britain-us?newsfeed=true

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